Ancient Places
Explore mysterious ancient ruins, sacred sites, places of great historical importance and phenomenal archaeological sites. Many ancient places offer us unique glimpse to the past.
Marvel over the astonishing architecture and history. You will be magically transported back in time.
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Anchor Church Caves in the United Kingdom have long held a secret, but no one knew it, at least not until now.
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - One of the most incredible ancient libraries one can encounter is located inside the Sakaya monastery in Tibet. The great Sakaya library is
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Biblical Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Tahpanhes was once an important city to the people of the Kingdom of Judah and ancient Egyptians. From the thirty-ninth chapter of Jeremiah
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - This massive ancient structure, nicknamed the Ukrainian Stonehenge, has many secrets to tell. According to researchers, this kurgan (burial mound, sacred hill) located
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - What ancient secrets are hidden in the Khentii Mountains? Is the tomb of the great warrior Genghis Khan hidden deep inside the mountains? Is
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The ancient city of Kussara has never been found, but there is no reason to doubt its existence. Located somewhere in Anatolia, the
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A.Sutherland - AncientPages.com - There is a fascinating and entirely different megalithic site known as Namoratunga. The site is located on the west side of Lake Turkana in
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Located in the heart of Baku, Azerbaijan, the Maiden Tower is the city's most mysterious and impressive ancient structure. Being 29.5 meters (97
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The beautiful Golosov Lavine has always been a strange and mysterious place. It is said a puzzling time-warping mist occasionally appears over the
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Barabar Caves are considered the oldest surviving rock-cut caves in India. Mostly dated to the Maurya Empire (322-185 BC), they were carved
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The world is full of wonderful, beautiful, and mysterious places. One of them is a lake called Llyn Y Dywarchen. Located in Gwynedd,
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - When Albert Camus (1913 -1960) wrote about Djémila, a ruined Roman city in the mountains of Northern Algeria, he said this beautiful long-abandoned
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Those who would like to visit Civita di Bagnoregio should be prepared to walk a lot. The only way to access the Italian
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Angela Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The temple was built on the banks of a large artificial lake and sponsored by King Vishnuvardhan of the Hoysala Empire, located in
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - When Giovanni Battista Belzoni discovered the tomb of Pharaoh Seti I in 1817, he was astonished something so old could still be almost
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - About 9,000 years ago, long before Stonehenge in the UK was constructed, a Neolithic society in Israel built a large stone circle using
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Angela Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Many spectacular structures of antiquity, such as the pyramids, temples of Luxor and Karnak, Ramesseum, Abu Simbel, and others, attest to ancient Egypt's superior civilization. Abu
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The strength of archaeology is filling in history gaps and confirming mythical events as authentic. One should be careful and not dismiss myths and
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Ramanathaswamy Temple (or Rameshwaram Temple) is a famous Hindu shrine dedicated to the god Shiva and situated on the island of Rameshwaram, in
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Angela Sutherland - AncientPages.com - More than a hundred historical sites are recognized in the basin of a 400 kilometer stretch of Halil-Rud River in the south of
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Egyptologists have unearthed many magnificent tombs. However, there are still burial places belonging to some of the most influential people in Egypt's ancient
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Old Testament mentions the city Uruk as Erech, and its original Sumerian name is Unug. What we know today about Uruk comes
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - There is a fascinating ancient underwater cemetery in Florida, North America. It is called Windover Pond, and it is 8,000 years old. Windover
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Edzná is an ancient place populated in 400 BC and abandoned c. 1500 AD. It is a Maya archaeological site in the north of the Mexican state of Campeche.
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Many amazing archaeological discoveries have been made in the Land of The Pharaohs. Still, archaeologists cannot often find nearly intact burials filled with
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Unfortunately, the ancient mystery of the Spearhead Mound in Ohio, North America, will never be solved. This intriguing ancient site is a lost
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Who was the first explorer to visit the Arctic? That is a question one cannot answer quickly. The lack of historical references dealing
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Angela Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Vettuvan Koil (“heaven of sculptors” or “the temple of slayer”) is a temple dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva, the most popular deity
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Mirpur Jain Temple is near a fortified village, Mirpur, district Sirohi, Rajasthan, India. Pillars at the Mirpur Jain Temple. Image credit: Nihir Shah23 - CC BY-SA
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - There is a truly puzzling ancient carving in Sri Lanka covered with strange symbols, lines, and other geometric figures. The ancient chart-like carving
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Khara-Khoto ("black city" or "black water city") was inhabited by Tangut people and located about 200 miles north of the legendary Silk Highway
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Destroyed by King Murdoch O'Brien of Munster in 1101, the little-known stone ringfort Grianán Of Aileach was once home to the Kingdom of
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Sardinia is one of the most ancient pieces of land in Europe with a rich legacy of prehistoric monuments. On the island, there
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Ekambareswarar Temple (Ekambaranathar Temple) is an outstanding Hindu temple dedicated to Lord Shiva, and located in Kanchipuram, an ancient city in southern India's
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The Judaculla Rock in North Carolina is one of the greatest mysteries in North America. The 230-square-foot soapstone boulder is covered with more
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Meteora, (means in Greek:" raised from the ground, hanging") and the ancient monasteries built atop the Meteora massif represent a magnificent place that does
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - From once being one of the most wealthy and powerful Western Christian military orders, life changed dramatically for the Knights Templar in 1307.
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Dravidian (or Southern-style) is the earlier of the two main styles in the evolution of sacred Hindu architecture. It is characterized by
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - One of the most representative historical and archaeological places of Colombia is Tierradentro, known as the National Archaeological Park located in the municipality
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archeologists have long speculated about the causes of occasional upheavals in the pre-Spanish societies created by the ancestors of contemporary Pueblo peoples. These
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A.Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Many spectacular architectural masterworks of India, like temples, mosques, monoliths, statues, gigantic forts, palaces, universities, and tombs, are left in legacy by the country’s
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Cosquer Cave is the world's only underwater Stone Age cave and a marvelous place where archaeologists have discovered mysterious paintings created by our
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